Quant On A Budget
How This Came Together I didn’t set out to build a trading platform for the masses. I just needed something that would reliably do a few specific jobs for me. I needed a scanner that could surface candidates without constant babysitting. I needed a watchlist that stayed current. I needed a clean way to turn setups into playbooks so I wasn’t reinventing the plan every time a name lit up. I needed alerts — on breakouts and on the exact conditions in those playbooks — delivered where I actually look (Telegram). And I needed to be able to see the whole picture from a browser when I wanted context. So I started putting the pieces on a DigitalOcean droplet running the most stable Python version I could lock down. Interactive Brokers Gateway handled the market data and eventual execution side. A lightweight web server gave me a view into the system without having to SSH in every time. Telegram became the notification ...